I did mention dh was sweet enough to buy me a Nook for my birthday, right? Well, it’s been just about a month and I wanted to share with you my experience with my new toy. The upshot? I’m in love! The convenience of having so many books at my fingertips...

Today’s my wedding anniversary. 24 years. Look at us——>We were babies. But we knew love when it hit us. And there’s no one else I would have rather spent the last two decades with. We’ve had laughter and tears, weathered illness and...

I’m home these days, thanks to some major league joint pain, episodes of vertigo, and assorted other issues that could mean lyme disease, could be a virus, or could mean I’m going out of my mind. And while I’ve been able to catch up on my reading (as...

That’s for Earl, who turned out to be more ego than power. Scattered heavy rain, no wind, heavy surf on the East End of our beautiful Island home. But nothing else. Luckily, I long ago got used to the doom-and-gloom forecasters and learned to ignore the...

Hurricane Earl’s heading our way. Stay safe and dry if you live on the eastern coast of the U.S. The term, “batten down the hatches” is nautical in origin. Batten, on the sea, means to secure or tie down. And hatches are the doorways leading from one...